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  1. Located roughly 26 miles (41.8 km) northwest of downtown Detroit, Pontiac is part of the Detroit metropolitan area, and is variously described as a satellite city or suburb of Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 61,606.

  2. www.pontiac.mi.us › community › historyWelcome to Pontiac, MI

    He was Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa Indian tribe, who lived from 1720 to 1769. Chief Pontiac was rugged, yet charismatic; strong, but gentle; a warrior, as well as a diplomat. It was Pontiac who united, for the first time, all the tribes between the Mississippi River, Florida and Canada for a common cause; to resist the men who were advancing ...

  3. Pontiac, city, seat (1820) of Oakland county, southeastern Michigan, U.S., lying on the Clinton River 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Detroit. Named for Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa tribe, it was located on the Saginaw Trail and became an important wagon and carriage production centre in the 1880s.

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  5. Learn how Pontiac was founded in 1818 by a group of investors from Detroit, named by Lewis Cass, the governor of Michigan Territory. Pontiac was a military road town along the Saginaw Trail, a route between Detroit and Saginaw, and a county seat of Oakland County. The town's location was influenced by the Clinton River, a fast-flowing waterway that provided waterpower and transportation.

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  6. 1819-The Pontiac Company put up a saw mill at the foot of Lawrence Street by the Clinton River. 1819- Michigan Territory Governor Lewis Cass proclaimed Oakland the forth county of the Michigan territory. It was preceded by Wayne, Monroe and Macomb Counties. 1820- Pontiac was proclaimed the seat of Oakland County and the first court at Oakland ...

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